I've
received answers to my prayers, including gaining a couple true friends who I've been able to help and be myself around with whom I'll keep in touch.
So for me, that was amazing as well, you know a
real answer to prayer, that it would break down those walls and barriers.
Once you know how to pray as discussed in this book, you will also discover that you already know what to pray for and how to see
more answers to your prayers.
The limits to what God can do
in answer to prayer are, in that sense, set only by our willingness to be used as instruments for the divine goodwill.
That is what Christian prayer is all about; and when we have grasped this, the problems which at first may have troubled us
about answers to prayer fade into insignificance, and we can remember the great words of St. Francis de Sales: «we seek not the consolations of God, but the God of consolation.»
Drowning for years, Credit Canada was a literal
answer to prayer when I hit my lowest point (payday loans and selling my jewelry * squirm *)!
That would not only eliminate any possibility of human freedom and so render meaningless such concepts as sin and salvation, it would also make impossible any kind of special providence and any hope of
direct answers to prayer.
You have never felt closer to God, have never seen God more at work in your life, have never felt more freedom and joy in your interaction with neighbors and coworkers who need to see the love of Jesus, are seeing
many answers to prayer, have a renewed interest and insight into Scripture, and are seeing God do amazing things in your life, and yet....
In more specific ways the spiritual influence of group involvement was also apparent: of the people currently involved, 90 percent claimed they were better able to forgive others, 79 percent said they had been enabled to share their faith with others outside the group, 78 percent felt closer to God and 66 percent had
experienced answers to prayer.
I will not submit as a result of a tearful testimony, third party proclamations of miracles,
supposed answers to prayers, feelings of any kind, especially a «burning in my bosom».
Mere formalists may be content
without answers to their prayers, but genuine suppliants can not; they are not satisfied with the results of prayer itself in calming the mind and subduing the will — they must go further, and obtain actual replies from heaven, or they can not rest; and those replies they long to receive at once, they dread even a little of God's silence.
We can not prove a metaphysical connection, just as the thousands of reported miracle healings or other
presumed answers to prayer can not be proved to the satisfaction of the Humes and the Kants of the world.
If, for instance, we pray for a friend who is ill, God's
answer to our prayer includes as one of its major elements His sending of us with our concern, our love, our capacity to help.
I know that many people think that this is what God IS doing
through answer to prayer, and daily blessings, and so on, but in our more honest moments, I think all of us wish that God would make His existence more obvious.
And we will see today that God did hear Simeon's prayer (and the prayers of many others during this time) and was sending to them the
greatest answer to prayer ever seen.
When we pray, and whatever it is we pray for, the true effectiveness, the
true answers to prayer, come when we are — as verse 18 says next — praying in the Spirit.
not to lose their tempers if they failed to obtain a
miraculous answer to their prayers... for God, from whom all benefits proceed, knows better than we do what is right and fitting for our souls.
A seeming
answer to his prayers comes in the form of a homeless man (Anthony Geary «General Hospital») whom Joel pays to sit in his passenger seat so he can use the carpool lane.
God uses little things to speak to us sometimes... like a box falling off another box to prove a point, or when you're praying to God for a vacation, and not 15 minutes later a friend texts you an
amazing answer to prayer.
I always
receive answers to prayers and revelation for my family and it's always so fun to watch church on the couch in your jammies, hanging out with family and warm cinnamon rolls in the oven!
Non believer, Your comment is exactly why God the Father and His Son our Savior visited Joseph Smith
in answer to his prayer.